This has been the USA's worst year on record for flight delays and airport gridlock, but there is some unexpected good news: Most of the nation's aviation system actually is performing relatively well and reducing delays.

This has been the USA's worst year on record for flight delays and airport gridlock, but there is some unexpected good news: Most of the nation's aviation system actually is performing relatively well and reducing delays.

Greek-Persian history goes video game in a humanistically Spartan epic unlikely to have cut it in the old days (say, 1940-80), when even mass audiences expected so much more. The film's dominating CGI effects are good for a dreamy look as far as that goes.

The Gay Divorce Hollywood censors said a divorce couldn't be gay (let's not go there), so RKO added a vowel for the first Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical in which they were leads. (They'd stolen 1933's Flying Down to Rio in support.)

It's the ultimate vacation: a round-the-world trek. Even better is doing it on someone else's dime with the prospect of winning a $1 million prize. The only catch is that CBS is making the itinerary – and the whole thing is televised.